Independent Lens · SEASON 24

The Big Payback

Episode 5 · 2023-01-16

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Episode overview

An Evanston, Illinois rookie alderwoman led the passage of the first tax-funded reparations bill for Black Americans. While she and her community struggle with the burden to make restitution for its citizens, a national racial crisis engulfs the country. Will the debt ever be addressed, or is it too late for a reparations movement to finally get the big payback?

85 minutes

Season 24 episodes

1. Hazing2022-09-12 2. TikTok, Boom.2022-10-24 3. Move Me2022-11-07 4. Children of Las Brisas2023-01-02 5. The Big Payback2023-01-16 6. No Straight Lines2023-01-23 7. The Picture Taker2023-01-30 8. Outta the Muck2023-02-06 9. Love in the Time of Fentanyl2023-02-13 10. Storming Caesars Palace2023-03-20 11. Hidden Letters2023-03-27 12. Free Chol Soo Lee2023-04-24 13. Matter of Mind: My ALS2023-05-01 14. Sam Now2023-05-08 15. Silent Beauty2023-05-15 16. Mama Bears2023-06-20